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The Parable of the Ten Virgins Opened and Applied
The parable of the ten virgins opened & applied being the substance of divers sermons on Matth. 25, I-13 wherein the difference between the sincere Christian and the ... hypocrite ... are clearly discovered ... / by Thomas Shepherd ; now published from the authors own notes ... by Jonathan Mitchell ... Tho. Shepherd, son to the reverend author ...The parable of the ten virgins opened & applied being the substance of divers sermons on Matth. 25, I-13 wherein the difference between the sincere Christian and the ... hypocrite ... are clearly discovered ... / by Thomas Shephard ; now published from the authours own notes ... by Jonathan Mitchell ... Tho. Shephard, son to the reverend author ...
London: printed by J. Hayes for John Rothwell, 1660
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
2. Otherwise you quench the Spirit, and resist the testimony of the Spirit, at least one great part of it. For the Spirit when it doth come to witness Gods love, i• answers all the doubts and objections of the soul that it had before. Now the great doubt of Gods people is not only, Am I elected, am I justified and accepted? But am I called, am I sanctified, are not my desires, my Faith, my love counterfeit? which I may have, and yet go to Hell? Now the Spirit when it comes, clears up all doubts, not fully, but gradually, for 'tis the most clearing witness, and therefore, John 14. 18, 19, 20. At that day you shall know that I am in you, and you in me, and I in the Father. The Spirit doth not only say Christ is out of you, in Heaven, preparing and interceding, but in you, sanctifying, preparing thee for Glory, that art a vessel of Glory; and you in me by Faith, by Love, desire, &c. Now when a man shall say, I look to no work, but only for the Spirit to reveal the Lords Love; in seeming to desire the Spirit, he doth resist the Spirit of God.
2. Otherwise you quench the Spirit, and resist the testimony of the Spirit, at least one great part of it. For the Spirit when it doth come to witnesse Gods love, i• answers all the doubts and objections of the soul that it had before. Now the great doubt of Gods people is not only, Am I elected, am I justified and accepted? But am I called, am I sanctified, are not my desires, my Faith, my love counterfeit? which I may have, and yet go to Hell? Now the Spirit when it comes, clears up all doubts, not fully, but gradually, for 'tis the most clearing witnesse, and therefore, John 14. 18, 19, 20. At that day you shall know that I am in you, and you in me, and I in the Father. The Spirit doth not only say Christ is out of you, in Heaven, preparing and interceding, but in you, sanctifying, preparing thee for Glory, that art a vessel of Glory; and you in me by Faith, by Love, desire, &c. Now when a man shall say, I look to no work, but only for the Spirit to reveal the Lords Love; in seeming to desire the Spirit, he doth resist the Spirit of God.